ciao form Italy

Welcome dude. Happy Progging.

gouzou wrote: hi all ! I'm Davide, guitars and keyboards in a couple of prog or near-prog bands from Genova. I've been browsing for long time PA reviews and now I'm glad to participate to the forum :-)

Hmm, I see you credited on releases by Ballo delle Castagne, Egida Aurea and Runes Order - of which the first is in the database here. Any other band projects you're involved in?

Hope you enjoy the contents of these archives :-)

Ah, I knew I had stumbled across your name somewhere - while site editor Vitaly cut down the credits list I did note down all the people involved when writing this review. As your name rang a bell I used Google, and it didn't take too many minutes before I got information. I tend to hit the search engines when I'm curious about stuff.

Personally I'd say quite a few of the artists you mention are fairly deep in the heartland of prog - but that's just me. I'll toss something to you that you may not have come across that might interest someone that enjoys music that cross some boundaries here and there.

gouzou wrote: If I may add, I feel the mix has that 70's vibe on purpose, as to move further from "Der Golem" sound, and its somewhat 90's prog-metal influenced sound.

Glad you found Redd to be enjoyable. To be a 70's band I find their style rather peculiar - not too many others I know about from that era that explored music in such a manner. Brittle, dry, delicate, but also using textures in a manner many post rock bands might find familiar I suspect. And forceful and powerful when needed. Personally I'm charmed a lot by their drummer, who to my mind is the centre of the band, and also have great fun listening to the guitarist adding a bluesy detail there and what I'd describe as sleepy jazz-tinged details to the proceedings on occasion too. That is speaking from the point of view of someone who just listen to music though - I've never played an instrument nor studied it.

As for your comment above, it's typical of a description that I feel should come from a participating musician rather than a reviewer. If I had listened to Der Golem (I can't recall if I ever did...) I might have observed the difference, but as to putting it into such a context would have been speculation on my part. I would probably have described it instead - something along the lines of "unlike their previous albums more contemporary, metal-oriented style this most recent release have a stronger focus on a vintage 70's sound" would have been a typical description from me. Interesting to know though, thanks :-)

It's not all that often I make observations of this kind I'm afraid, when going through 200+ albums each year I fear on most occasions I have a hard time recalling a band's previous album other than on more superficial terms.

gouzou wrote: 200+ reviews each year is an impressive record, I understand it is not possible to kepp in mind the whole band history for each of them. I'm sorry I sometimes forget that not everyone can be "inside" the project as much as a collaborating musician, I was just developing the subject out of enthusiasm, but the review was spot-on anyway :-)

Oh, I understand where you're coming from. Which is why I described how I regard such matters in some detail. This is stuff that is obvious to me, but I fully understand that when you're deeply involved and invested in a project, you'll generally be unable to reflect upon how matters appear to those that doesn't have that connection. So this was an explanation, and a glimpse into how my mind works on such matters :-)